What Lies Beneath Tempe Town Lake

Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, a section of the inflatable rubber dam that held Tempe Town Lake burst, sending waves of sun-baked, germ-infested water into the Salt River Bed.

The two-mile-long Town Lake that once was, could be no longer in a matter of hours, which means there's going to be a whole lot of mud ... and a whole lot else that's been hiding under the murk.

Here are just a few of our predictions of what's at the bottom.

Let's start small.

Phase One of clean up is likely to yield the following:- The inevitable abundance of empty beer cans, needles and feral cats- Russell Pearce's toupee- Plenty of trashy treasures for Angela Cazel Jahn's next installation- Remnants of the native head shops and hippies- Michael Crow's job applications to anywhere (and everywhere) out of town